1ST SESSION Extended Descriptions:

The Hidden Cult
[Beyond the Wall]YA Fantasy done via Retroclone
Tell the tale of the village youth on their first adventure! As childhood comes to a close for you and your friends, the yearning to see the wider world and make a name for yourselves becomes ever stronger. But adventure may come sooner than expected, and the price may be higher than you are prepared to pay…

Beyond the Wall is a game that blends innovative backstory-building character generation mechanics with a solid old-school D&D backbone. It is simple, easy to learn, and fast-paced. If you ever enjoyed Narnia, Prydain, Earthsea, The Dark is Rising, Harry Potter, or other similar “YA” fantasy adventure novels, and want to imagine being one of the characters in those books, this is the game for you!

Live After Death
[Call of Cthulhu]Let’s Be Bad Guys!
A modern Call of Cthulhu scenario with a twist.

The players ARE the bad guys – Three Ghouls, a madman and a serial killer (who may or may not be a Hastur Cultist)!

These five companions must work together to save themselves and their way of life as the outside world pushes in on them. In three days their fates will be decided. Their battleground – Oakwood Cemetery.

The Long Orbit
[Monsterhearts]Supernatural Space Horror
It’s the distant future. You are part of a modest crew aboard a freighter headed for a planet that’s being terraformed. You are awoken from stasis at the proper time, but a major storm on the planet’s surface makes landing much too dangerous.

Your ship will be stuck in orbit for days. A minor inconvenience, except that you haven’t felt the same since waking up. You seem disquietingly capable of impossible things and you’re pretty sure your fellow crew members are too…

This scenario is a setting – not rules – hack of Monsterhearts. It includes themes of isolation, body horror, romance, desperation, and survival. Written by Rachel E.S. Walton

Dream of Atlantis
[Call of Cthulhu Invictus]Cthulhu by Ray Harryhausen
You are all invited to the seaside estate of the wealthy patrician Publius Clodius for a week long party. The reason is to celebrate the latest acquisition for his famous collection of statuary at his cliffside villa in Southern Sicily.

The beach is excellent, the entertainment is top-notch and the unveiling promises to be an experience you are unlikely to ever forget…

The Iceman Cometh
[Geist: The Sin Eaters]Geistbusters!
To save themselves from the icy embrace of Death, three paranormal professors had to make a deal with terrifying spirits of the Underworld to live again. So what do you do when you’re newly reborn and you have a Geist riding shotgun in your head? Open a Ghost Detective Agency, of course!

But your latest case is a gruesome murder, and none of the ghosts are talking. Something has decided the Ebon Gate isn’t a one-way door. Something powerful and evil enough to scare even those who are beyond all mortal pain.

They will only whisper its name: the Iceman.

Any Which Way But Spruce!
[Mouse Guard]Mice with Swords
In Mouse Guard, you play a heroic knight of the Mouse Territories, sworn to protect it from predators and treason, even unto death.

Following a brief civil war, the Western Territories are in total disarray. Your patrol must rebuild basic protections against the wild things at the edge of civilization, while also defending the townsfolk from a deadly menace before it’s too late.

Mouse Guard is a fun game for new and veteran players alike.

Chainmail Bikini Beach Party
[Champion Complete]High Fantasy Beach Holiday
Get ready to roll for grooviness when five teen adventurers trade in their musty old dungeons for fun in the sun on Brom Beach! Mashing high fantasy and the Champions Complete RPG with 60′s American beach party movies, “Chainmail Bikini Beach Party” will let you:

Ninja Panda Taco
[Ninja Panda Taco]Conquer the World with Silly Schemes!
Each player designs two characters – one “Mastermind” and one “Minion” – and roleplays each in an effort to take over the world. Each Mastermind aims to implement a 3-step plan to take over the world. However, a Nemesis challenges the plan at every step!

Masterminds strive to win by defeating their Nemesis every round; they do this by effectively persuading Minions to support them, both through rhetoric and the promises. Minions choose to back either the Mastermind or the Nemesis; in return, they collect rewards.

This is a good game for people relatively new to gaming or for those who are looking for a not-too-serious indie game. Come with a silly smile, blossoming with fantastical ideas, and ready for healthy laughter.

All the King’s Men
[Fortune's Fool]Fantasy Renaissance
As part of The King’s Men theater troupe in London, you’ve recently enjoyed success with your latest political comedy, “The Bishop Moves Diagonally.”

But when the Archbishop of Canterbury falls dead from the rigging during an evening’s performance, suspicion naturally falls on you!

Can you clear your names and find the real killer before one of your own is sent to the hangman’s gallows?

The Mines of Madness
[D&D Next Playtest]D&D Next Tournament Adventure
I am running the latest version of the D&D Next Playtest.

The adventure is the one written by PvP/Blaminations/PA’s Scott Kurtz, and lead WotC DM and writer guy Chris Perkins.

This adventure will run to a strict clock; fortune favors the bold!

Last Call
[Marvel Heroic + Shadowrun]Cyberpunk Film Noir
You are NOT a murderer. You kill but it’s not murder. It’s work. It’s survival. It’s personal. This is the last time. The last run. Your last call.

The year is 2072. Magic has returned and creatures of myth and legend walk among us as megacorps bleed the world dry. You’re a Shadowrunner-a deniable asset, a corporate pawn-using bleeding-edge science and magic to make your meat body and mind better-than-flesh to do what normal people can’t.. and won’t.

Shadowrun is a near-future science fantasy RPG in which cybernetics, magic and fantasy creatures co-exist. It combines cyberpunk, urban fantasy and crime, with a side of conspiracy, horror and detective fiction. This game uses a hacked version of Marvel Heroic and Leverage.

Mages of the Mountain (Set A)
[Adventurer Conqueror King]Meta Mega-Dungeoneering
Long ago a man went into a subterranean mountain fortress, emerged as a god, and founded an empire. After the fall of Turms Turmax’s reign, he was imprisoned in the same mega-dungeon where he reached apotheosis.

You are a member of a powerful conclave of mages, seeking to free Turms and gain the secret of immortality. Will you manipulate others into doing your dungeon-crawling for you, raise an army to control access to the fortress, or launch an alpha strike on his extra-dimensional prison?

This exploration of James Maliszewski’s Dwimmermount will be run using the Adventurer Conqueror King System, drawing on Domains at War as necessary should mass combat ensue. Some experience playing high-level spellcasters in D&D will be helpful. Characters provided.

BEWARE: ANOTHER GROUP OF MAGES AT THE NEXT TABLE HAS THE SAME GOAL AS YOU – ARE THEY ALLIES, OR ENEMIES?

Mages of the Mountain (Set B)
[Adventurer Conqueror King]Meta Mega-Dungeoneering
Long ago a man went into a subterranean mountain fortress, emerged as a god, and founded an empire. After the fall of Turms Turmax’s reign, he was imprisoned in the same mega-dungeon where he reached apotheosis.

You are a member of a powerful conclave of mages, seeking to free Turms and gain the secret of immortality. Will you manipulate others into doing your dungeon-crawling for you, raise an army to control access to the fortress, or launch an alpha strike on his extra-dimensional prison?

This exploration of James Maliszewski’s Dwimmermount will be run using the Adventurer Conqueror King System, drawing on Domains at War as necessary should mass combat ensue. Some experience playing high-level spellcasters in D&D will be helpful. Characters provided.

BEWARE: ANOTHER GROUP OF MAGES AT THE NEXT TABLE HAS THE SAME GOAL AS YOU – ARE THEY ALLIES, OR ENEMIES?

Command & Colors: Ancients
[Boardgame]The Battle of Cannae (August 2, 216 BC)
We will run an EPIC (double size) version of Command & Colors: Ancients to re-enact The Battle of Cannae between the Carthaginans led by Hannibal and the Romans led by Gaius Terentius Varro.

Each team will be led by a command in chief (myself and another C&C vet). You will be one of the 3 field generals on either side. We will also eschew the standard blocks of the game in favor of custom miniatures to give it a unique flavor.

Command & Colors is a simple but effective war gaming system. This particular version has a BGG ranking of 30 in the boardgames section and 9 in the war games section. It rocks!

Cyborg ZeroZero9
[Marvel Heroic]Superheroes vs. Evil Organization
The Black Ghost organization longs to keep mankind at the brink of war! Yet even the head of this insidious group, the eponymous Black Ghost himself, understands the consequences of plunging the world into an apocalypse. To this end, he conjures a way for countries to engage in warfare through the use of cyborg super-soldiers. However, he underestimated the strength of will in the prototype ’00′ series. These cyborg warriors rebelled, and ultimately escaped the clutches of Black Ghost. They now fight to end Black Ghost’s reign of terror!

Recent terrorist activity in London has brought the 00 team ‘across the pond’ to investigate Black Ghost’s involvement. After a short ride in their high speed submersible, the Dolphin, the team is on the bank of the river Thames and ready to investigate.

Fiasco
[Saturday Night '78]Crime and Misfortune in Disco-era NYCFiasco is a storytelling RPG that lets you make a Cohen Brothers-style story in about as much time as it takes to watch one.

You need nothing to play this game; just a dark sense of humor and a healthy imagination. Characters will have very high ambition, but very poor impulse control, and the best you can hope for is to wind up back where you started.

Our story will take place in 1978 NYC, a time of rock and disco, a time of reckless hedonism. Some will want to get rich. Some will want to escape. Some will want respect. And others will just want to have fun. It’s all going down on Saturday Night in ’78…

Super Dungeon Explore
[Boardgame]RPG-inspired Dungeon Crawl
The Dark Consul, from his spire in the Scalding Sea, commands his forces in their conquest of Crystalia.

A group of intrepid heroes are about to brave the magma flows and dark chasms of the Dragonback Peaks to defeat the Consul’s kobold minions and their master, the mighty dragon Starfire!

Folly of the Frosty Fissure
[Swords and Wizardry]Old School Dungeon Exploration
High in the hills gapes a scowling crack from which a bone-chilling wind ceaselessly blows. Desperate souls dare its depths for the riches they hope to find within. Desperate souls never seen again. Desperate souls like you.

This is a classic dungeon challenge for 1st level characters in the style of original 1970′s fantasy war-gaming. Fights are to be avoided, cleverness is superior to brute force and death is quick and easy. All materials provided.

The Inter-Cosmic Superhero Crossover
[Homebrew Supers]Cross-genre Superhero Cosmic Crossover
With a heavy concentration on pure storytelling and an opportunity for players to run ANY superhero from any known universe, this cosmic adventure will range from the gritty crime-riddled streets to cosmic world-spanning danger.

Can our far-flung heroes learn to work together before the alien fleet, demonic horde and/or robot-powered gun-thugs overthrow the world as we know it?

2ND SESSION Extended Descriptions:

Winter Valley Issues #1
[Monsterhearts]Sexy Teen Monsters in a Small Town
It is a cold, snowy day in Winter Valley, New Jersey, a small town along the Delaware Water Gap near the bridges leading to Pennsylvania. But still you have to get up and go to school, on what should have been declared a snow day. But yet there’s always something to be taught, learned and discovered in school. In Winter Valley, someone always needs to be taught a lesson.

Today’s Lesson? Fine Dining.

This game is an attempt to tell a narrative over several game sessions throughout game days like Recess. The effects of this game will help shape further stories and the setting itself.

Riding the Northbound
[Call of Cthulhu]Hobo with an Elder Sign
A group of hobos, tramps and bums must travel across country to a Thanksgiving Day dinner hosted by a former hobo.

Old Railway Rob married a wealthy widow over the summer and he’s put out an invitation to everyone he ever rode the rails with to visit his new home for a free meal, a warm bed and a new set of clothes to celebrate his good fortune, meet his new wife and give thanks.

The road there is fraught with peril, and the mystery only deepens upon arrival.

Dances in the Blood
[Cthulhu Dark]Steven King meets Lovecraft
1935 – A lonely place in Northern England. And a chance meeting at the bar of a fading hotel. Perhaps you got off at the wrong train stop, were seeking antiques in this forgotten village, or the promise of a handout lured you all the way out here.

Wherever here is, you swear you’ll never return to this grim backwater. Or have you already?

Cthulhu Dark is a game of unfurling Lovecraftian dread. Improv heavy, rules light, fight the monster and you die, chance of insanity: extremely high.

Legacies
[Lady Blackbird hack]Teenage Superhero (and Villain) Drama
The Legion of Valor was the best superhero team in the world, the defenders of Beacon City, bringing technology and peace to the world.

That was five years ago. In one horrible day called “The Terror”, the team and all the work they had done were destroyed.

Five years later, Beacon City is still struggling to rebuild. The legacies of the Legion are struggling to find their footing in a city which scorns them, but which is about to need them very quickly.

Using the Lady Blackbird system, a game of saving the world while you find your place in it, teenage angst, tangled romances, with extra helpings of time-travel and evil clones.

Isla Lagarto
[Dread]Jurassic Park IV
Twelve years after the death of InGen founder John Hammond, the disputed machinations of his will have finally been settled. Monies have been dispersed. InGen’s Palo Alta and European headquarters auctioned. Only one thing remains to be settled. The curious item of Isla Lagarto…

The five inheritors find their way to Isla Lagarto, five-hundred miles off the coast of Spain. Where the luxurious Mansão Hammond still exists in crumbling splendor and the Will will be read. A simple bequest. Nothing could possibly go wrong.

The Shadow Also Rises
[Time & Temp]Love & Time Travel Don’t Mix
The life of a temporary staffer at Brown Chronometric may not always be intense, but when you’re not filing anachronism reports or photocopying census tracts, you’re out in the field protecting the timeline from paradox.

Join your fellow faceless drones on another assignment where the fate of all existence rests in your somewhat capable hands.

Star Trek: Out There…
[Star Trek (ICON)]It’s Life, Jim, But Not as We Know It
Space, The Final Frontier…Welcome back to the future of bold starship captains, Vulcan science officers and color coded mini-dress uniforms!

The U.S.S. Tyson in on a routine planetary survey when it discovers some…strange. A New Life Form? A New Civilization? Join the crew and find out!

Boldly go where no one has gone before in this classic Star Trek adventure featuring the ICON Rules System by Last Unicorn Games. A host of pre-generated Starfleet Officers will be made available and can then be customized at the table.

A Cabaret, Old Chum!
[Fortune's Fool]Elves vs. Nazis!
Forget Paris and London, for an intellectual in 1929 there is only Berlin! You and your friends are the artists, entertainers, and free-thinkers of Europe. By day, you write or paint or practice forgotten magic, but at night you make your way to the ‘Bitte Honey’ for cocktails, jazz, and intrigue.

But a dangerous movement is growing. The common folk have begun listening to a mustachioed halfling from Bavaria. He tells them that they are not blame for their hardships. He points his finger at the corrupting influence of gypsies and Elves and Jews – he points his finger at you.

Still, the German character is stoic and the German mind is practical. You may have to bear a few indignities, but in time, this charismatic Halfling will be forgotten and life in Berlin will return to normal. You never believed there was any real danger… until tonight.

Space Cadets
[Boardgame]Bridge Simulator
Fresh from Space Academy, an intrepid crew of cadets have been given control of a starship and sent out on a routine mission. Can the crew keep the ship together long enough to fight off enemies and gather precious warp crystals? Or will they crack under the pressure of being relentlessly hunted by the deadly Nemesis ship?

Take control of the helm, sensors, and engineering as you work together in this unique cooperative game!

The Ruined Keep
[D&D Basic (Moldvay)]Old Skool D&D!
Fun but challenging introductory mini-adventure of my own creation based on and extrapolated from the intro scenario from the Moldvay Basic Rulebook – The Ruined Keep!

1st & 2nd level pre-gen PCs provided.

Newbies & Grognards preferred!

Last Call
[Marvel Heroic + Shadowrun] Cyberpunk Film Noir
You are NOT a murderer. You kill but it’s not murder. It’s work. It’s survival. It’s personal. This is the last time. The last run. Your last call.

The year is 2072. Magic has returned and creatures of myth and legend walk among us as megacorps bleed the world dry. You’re a Shadowrunner-a deniable asset, a corporate pawn-using bleeding-edge science and magic to make your meat body and mind better-than-flesh to do what normal people can’t.. and won’t.

Shadowrun is a near-future science fantasy RPG in which cybernetics, magic and fantasy creatures co-exist. It combines cyberpunk, urban fantasy and crime, with a side of conspiracy, horror and detective fiction. This game uses a hacked version of Marvel Heroic and Leverage.

Operation Siegebreaker
[Singularity System]Space Opera Role-Playing and CombatOperation Siegebreaker will be an introductory adventure for the system, using a home-brewed sci-fi setting chock full of space exploration, starship combat, and giant fighting mechs!

The Singularity System is a brand new, setting-agnostic science fiction RPG.

Sound effects, hand drawn Maps, hand painted Miniatures and beautiful sculpted Dwarven Forge 3D terrain! If you have never played the original old school version of Dungeons and Dragons now is your chance!

This introduction to D&D is geared towards players who have never played D&D before, it’s simple and easy to play, no experience necessary. Lets have fun!

A Solemn Return
[Dungeon World]Heroic Fantasy
Heroes. That’s what they would call you. You delved deep and slew the beast! There should be celebration and merriment! So why has no one welcomed your return?

You find yourself alone in the street of a once-bustling town. A growl is heard coming from a distant building as the sun begins to set. What do you do?

Dungeon World is an easy-to-learn system that is well-suited for beginners and old-hands alike.

Witch Hunter
[Witch Hunter]Gothic Horror and AdventureWitch Hunter: The Invisible World is a swashbuckling, horror role-playing game. The players play witch hunters, otherwise-normal men and women who have left their past behind in order to seek and destroy supernatural evil.

This game will be an introductory RPG of Victorian horrors set in London. Part one (“Bedlam”) concerns a mysterious asylum. Part two (“The Lost Child”) features investigations into missing children.

Using simple fast play rules and pre gen characters.

The Mines of Madness
[D&D Next Playtest]Deadly Dungeon CrawlingThe Mines of Madness is a four-hour dungeon crawl written by Scott Kurtz (“PvP”) and Chris Perkins (Wizards of the Coast) as an homage to deadly dungeons of D&D’s past.

Make no mistake; this dungeon is difficult and it is very likely that your character will not make it out, but really, that’s the whole point of this game: to die spectacular and awesome deaths that you can share with friends for years to come.

3rd-Level pre-gen characters will be provided. No RPG or D&D experience necessary.

The Curse of Castle Kinkale
[Prince Valiant]Good-Hearted Knights of Camelot
Far to the East of shining Camelot in the desolate marshes a old forsaken fortress has stirred to mysterious life. No envoy has been received by King Arthur from this new lord, but an army is said to be massing within the walls and, more disturbing, frightened peasants flee the ghostly horrors they say creep from it at night. Just who rules from Kinkale now, and what threat may he pose to the people of Camelot?

Based on the classic Hal Foster comic, Prince Valiant is a light story-telling game of chivalrous adventure created by the designers of Runequest, Pendragon and Call of Cthulhu. All materials will be provided.

Die Macher
[Boardgame]Politics: Posturing and Piggybacking
German politics are a strange beast. In this classic game, you are a party working to match your political stances to the ones the public currently demand. If your goals match another party close enough, you can pool your party votes for a dominating lead, but you then split the spoils. Win over the most electorates and see your party claim the presidency.

Euro-style gaming at it’s finest. Move cubes and reveal secret expendable resources. This game is is long and dry, but if you enjoy solving complex puzzles this is really hard to beat. This game still sees play after nearly 30 years for a reason!

Hyperreality
[Hyperreality]Satirical Reality TV Gameshow
This ain’t your parent’s game show! Chaos, controversy, adrenaline, sex, violence, and even death are just par for the course.

It’s time to win big, so put on your game face and take this chance to get anything and everything you ever wanted.